63 [ 120 ] 



Amount e.^pended on (he building and its appurtenances up 



to the 3 1 St December, 1818 .... ,f; 78, 937 41 



Amount expended on the same durmg the year 1819 - 56, 383 76 



Total amount expended on the same up to the end of the 



year 1849 - - - - - - 135,321 17 



At the annual meeting in December, 1847, it 

 Avas resolved that there should be considered 

 applicable to the building and grounds (in- 

 cluding preceding expenditures) up to the 

 19th day of March, 1848, the sum of - !$-12,000 00 



And for the year ending March 19, 1849, the 



further sum of .... 52,00000 



And for the year ending March 19, 1850, the . 



fiuther sum of - - - - 52, 000 00 



^146, 000 03 



But, as shown above, the total expenditures to the end of 



1849 has been 135,32117 



Leaving, of the building fund, a balance appUcable between 



the 1st of January and 19th of March, 1850, of - - 10, 678 83 



The furnaces that have been set up in the building for heating the 

 rooms have not proved satisfactory to the architect, nor to the persons 

 who have occupied some of the rooms. He reports that they do not dif- 

 fuse the heat equally throughout the rooms — tliat while some apartments 

 are highly heated, others cannot be made comfortably warm; owing, as 

 he thinks, to the difficulty in conveying the heated air horizontally. He 

 also objects to the number of fires which are necessary in the use of 

 furnaces, and has advised that the other portions of the building should 

 be warmed with steam. The committee have requested the architect to 

 obtain full and definite information of all circumstances involved in the 

 use of steam as suggested by him, and to furnish a report such as will 

 enable a judgment to be formed of its adaptation to our purposes, and of 

 its relative cost. The Secretary of the institution is also engaged in some 

 inquiries of the same nature. 



The work entitled "Hints on Public Architecture," authorized to be 

 published by the Building Connnittee; has been issued, and is submitted 

 to the inspection of the Regents. 



The amount expended being somewhat beyond the amount appropri-. 

 ated by the Board of Regents, the committee requested an explanation 

 from the Hon. R. D. Owen, who had superintended the pnbUcation of the 

 work. That gentleman states that the landscapes of the lithographs at first 

 executed Avere so badly done as to be unfit for the press; and tbat though 

 the lithographer who engraved the building was the only one whoAvould 

 undertake the architectural portion, he did not prove suificiently experi- 

 enced in landscape drawing, to render that part of the plates euher 

 artistical or effective— this portion was, therefore, re-drawn by another 

 lithographer, at an additional expense of $80: that the remamder of the 

 additional expense was incurred by the necessity of altermg the size and 

 form of many of the wood-cutS; in order to enable them to come properly 





